Miley Cyrus Rocks MAC’s Viva Glam Lipstick and Then Some

Miley on the Bangerz World Tour in England, 2014., Photograph by Neil H. Kitson/WireImage.

Forget, at least for a moment, the highly publicized romance, the topless pictures, and that tongue. Miley Cyrus is as confident, strong, and engaging in person as she projects onstage. She is also prettier in person—her lips are even fuller than her Instagram photos portray, and her complexion is flawless. At a recent interview in West Hollywood, she covered everything from her fashion favorites (Jeremy Scott and Marc Jacobs) to her regrettable hair moments: "When I had the really crazy extensions. That was next-level." She also spoke about her new charity, Happy Hippie (an organization that's about to launch—which helps homeless youth), and her new role as the spokesperson for the coveted MAC Viva Glam Lipstick campaign, an annual campaign that donates 100 percent of its proceeds from the special-edition lipstick and gloss to the MAC AIDS Fund____, a critical campaign that has helped raise much awareness for the cause and $350 million to date.

A square pizza that MAC gave to Miley to celebrate her Viva Glam collection MAC Cosmetics launch in L.A., Photograph by Michael Buckner/Getty Images for MAC Cosmetics.

"Forty percent of the homeless community [in L.A.] is L.G.B.T.(lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) which is why I got behind Viva Glam," she explained. "MAC is definitely not a bad partnership to have on your side when it comes to making real changes—not just to bring awareness but to bring real financial help as well. It's good to have friends who want to do the same kinds of things. It's really cool." Clearly, MAC Cosmetics is a giver and has been generous with donations to her own personal charity. So, when it came time to collaborate on the Viva Glam product, she went all in. "I was a psycho," she says, playing the role of beauty perfectionist in order to make sure the lipstick was true to her vision. "I wanted the lipstick to be like hot-pink lava with crushed-up 1,000 disco balls inside. I wanted the set (of the ad campaign) to feel like the lipstick—like I was inside of the tube. That's what we wanted it to feel like." Do you know what confident, strong, and engaging people get? What they want. Cue “Wrecking Ball.”